AAPG Memoir 74, Chapter 23: The Petroleum Potential of Egypt, by J. C. Dolson, M. V. Shann, S. Matbouly, C. Harwood, R. Rashed, and H. Hammouda, Pages 453 - 482
from: AAPG Memoir 74: Petroleum Provinces of the Twenty-first Century, Edited by Marlan W. Downey, Jack C. Threet, and William A. Morgan
Copyright 2001 by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved.

Chapter 23
The Petroleum Potential of Egypt

John C. Dolson
BP Amoco Egypt, Cairo, Egypt

Mark V. Shann
BP Amoco, London, United Kingdom

Sayed Matbouly
Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, Cairo, Egypt

Colin Harwood
British Gas, Cairo, Egypt

Rashed Rashed
Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company, Cairo, Egypt

Hussein Hammouda
Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company, Cairo, Egypt

ABSTRACT

Since the onshore discovery of oil in the Eastern Desert in 1886, the petroleum industry in Egypt has discovered more than 15.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) of reserves. This paper uses an understanding of the tectono-stratigraphic history of each major basin, combined with drilling history and field-size distributions, to justify predicting that Egypt's future potential resource base will be twice what it is today.